Industry-leading associations IPC and SMTA jointly announce the High-Reliability Cleaning and Conformal Coating Conference scheduled to take place November 18-20, 2014 at the Chicago Marriott in Schaumburg, Illinois. The conference intensely focuses on best practices and new innovative technologies for meeting today’s manufacturing challenges and producing reliable hardware.
Jason Keeping of Celestica will chair Session #5 “Evaluating Conformal Coatings”

Charmaine Johnson and Doug Pauls of Rockwell Collins will present on “The Impact of Foreign Objects and Debris on Conformal Coating Insulation Resistance.”

Phil Kinner of Electrolube will present on “IPC CC-830B versus The Real World – A quantitative comparison of the ability of CC-830B to predict the ability of a conformal coating to successfully protect a test assembly during thermal shock and salt-mist testing.”